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TESTIMONY OF GENERAL TUXEN. 59
count accordingly made Swedenborg promise to accompany him to court, which
lie did. The king and queen being arrived, entered into conversation with the
foreign ambassadors, and other principal characters at court, and then ap-
proached Count Scheffer, who presented Swedenborg. The queen expressed
her satisfaction at seeing him, and asked him, Whether it was true, that he could
converse with the deceased .’
He answered, Yes. She inquired further. Whether
it was a science that could be communicated to and by others ? No. What is
it then? A gift of the Lord. Can you, then, speak with every one deceased,
or only ^vith certain persons ? He answered, I cannot converse with all, but
with such as I have known m this world ; with all royal and princely persons,
with all renowned heroes, or great and learned men, whom I have known,
either personally, or from their actions or writings ; consequently, with all, of
whom I could form an idea ; for it may be supposed that a person whom I
never knew, nor of whom I could form any idea, I neither could nor would wish
to speak with. The queen then asked him. Whether he would undertake a
commission to her lately deceased brother ? He answered, with all my heart.
On this he followed the queen, with the king and Count Scheffer, to a window in
the apartment, where the queen gave him his commission, to whicii he prom-
ised to bring her an answer. After this he was invited to the royal table, where
they put a thousand questions to him, which he answered truly. Some time
afterwards, Count Scheffer paid him another visit, and asked him whether he
would accompany him to court again, to which he consented. The queen on
seeing him, said, Do not forget my commission. He answered. It is already
done. And when he delivered her his message, she w^as extremely surprised,
and became suddenly indisposed; and, after some recollection, she said, This
no mortal could have told me ! On my inquiring whether any person had heard
what the queen had said when she gave him the commission, he answered, I
do not know ;
yet she did not speak so low but that the king and Count Scheffer,
if they had attended to it, might have heard it. This m.ay be depended upon, as
the late venerable man himself related it lo me.
" In the further course of conversation with him on the principles of religion
advocated and explained by him, I took an opportunity of asking him. How a
man, who was confident that he was serious in his duty towards God and his
neighbor, could be certain, whether he was in the right road to salvation or not ?
I was answered, That this was very easy ; and that such a man need onl}^ ex-
amine himself and his own thoughts according to the Ten Commandments; as,
for instance, whether he loves and fears God ; whether he is happy in seeing
the welfare of others, and does not envy them ; \yhether, on having received a
great injury from others, which may have excited. him to anger and to meditate
revenge, he afterwards changes his sentiments, because God has said, that ven-
geance belongs to him, and so on; then he may rest assured, that he is on the
road to heaven ; but when he discovers himself to be actuated by contrary sen-
timents, on the road to hell. This led me to think of myself as well as of
others ; and I also asked him. Whether he had seen the lately deceased king,
Frederick V., adding, that although some human frailty or other might be attrib-
uted to him, yet 1 had certain hopes that he w^as happy ? His answer was. Yes ;
I have seen him, and I know that he is very happy, and not only he, but like-
wise all the kings of the house of Oldcnborg, who are all associated together.
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